Course VPP 302 – Life Cycle Logistics
Course Description
Sustainment, not acquisition, typically accounts for the majority of a system's total ownership cost over its life cycle, yet sustainment planning is too often treated as an afterthought to the purchase decision. This three-day course builds understanding of the rules, regulations, processes, and activities that make up total life cycle logistics, and the relationship between total ownership cost and purchase price, culminating in a practical, program-ready action plan.
Course Objectives/Key Competencies
Students identify, analyze, and illustrate the steps required to develop action plans for total life cycle logistics, building toward a practical, program-ready plan of their own:
- Rules & Regulations: Understand the policies and regulatory framework that govern total life cycle logistics and where they apply across the acquisition life cycle.
- Processes & Activities: Learn the core processes and activities — from sustainment planning to supportability analysis — that make up total life cycle logistics.
- Total Ownership Cost vs. Purchase Price: Explore advanced relationships between total cost of ownership and purchase price, and how early logistics decisions drive long-term sustainment cost.
- Action Planning: Identify, analyze, and illustrate the steps required to develop a total life cycle logistics action plan for a program.
Key Competencies: Strategic readiness; Critical thinking: Critical technology advancement: Resource management; Bureaucratic agility; Resource management